Madrid, Spain.- The government of Madrid forbade the temporary movement of trucks private of 3.5 tonnes or more by the center of the city for the traditional parade of the three Kings of the next week, in order to avoid possible terrorist attacks using trucks as in Berlin or Nice the past year.
The Spanish capital has not detected any specific threat but that they applied the measure of preventive and experimental, informed a spokesperson of the city Council of Madrid, who asked not to be identified, in accordance with the rules of the institution.
trucks and buses cannot circulate through the center between the 3 and the 5 of January, when thousands of families take to the streets to attend the parades of the three Kings, a tradition of christian root.
this Is the first time that Madrid takes these precautions, the official added, that respond to two separate attacks with trucks that killed 12 people in the German capital in December and 86 in the past year in Nice, when a truck of 20 tons slammed against a crowd that was celebrating the Day of the Bastille.
Spain has maintained one level below the highest alert for safety from the attack to the French village and other similar ones in Tunisia. Also have detained 175 persons who the police accused of terrorism end, among them two alleged jihadists arrested this week in Madrid.
Several Spanish cities have installed barriers and barriers of access to areas of high turnout during the celebrations of the end of the year, which are added to a deployment special police for these dates.
in Addition to the extraordinary measure of security, Madrid ordered on Thursday a ban on the circulation of the vehicles with plate numbers that end in even number, due to the excessive levels of nitrogen dioxide in the air.
With information from The Universal.
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